Name of Layout - Boxer's Yard
Scale - 4mm/ft. OO
Era - transition
Size - 4ft X 9in.
Operating space required - a 5ft. X 2ft. table with 3ft. space to the rear and space to barriers.
Number of operators - 2/3
Value for insurance - £500
Boxer's Yard is a minimum space layout, first shown at South Shields in February 2005
Boxer's Yard is a small freelance private owner siding in the town of Dalefoot at the bottom end of the fictitious Dalefoot to Castledale branch in the Yorkshire and Durham Dales.
This layout is unique in that it has been designed to pack away into a B&Q aluminium flight case (including stock). The layout is thus incredibly portable. With less than 5ft. of length, it can be set up in even the smallest location. If you see this layout at a show you will be left in no doubt that any home can have a model railway.
This is the ideal solution for the modeller who lives in a broom cupboard. It would fit nicely on the top of an office desk and could be the ultimate executive toy.
The layout however is certainly not a toy - Boxer's Yard is a busy commercial area; there are two or three manufacturers who continue to rely on rail transport for their supplies and to despatch the finished products. The most significant of these is J. Boxer (Manufacturing) Ltd. who produce packing cases. These can often be seen on the other layouts as cargo. A sentinel shunter and a small pug are used for shunting. Because of the small size of these locomotives, they do not look out of place on such a small layout - sometimes realism is a question of proportion.
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it goes in a flight-case 
Sentinel Shunting
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